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i'm mark herring, candidate for attorney general, and i sponsored this ad. >> new information about a devastating crash in fairfax do in. two people killed. another person identifying for the life number learning what may have caused the accident. mus, a terrifying attack, four boston college students in acid. we have an update the college. president trump gears up for busy week but not before taking to twitter. what is raising eyebrows. announcer: now abc 7 news at 6:30 on your side. >> good evening. new developments about a deadly crash in fairfax county. the two young adults killed have been identified. a teenager still fighting for her life. as ryan hughes explains, neighborte
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seen a tragedy like this in that area. >> well, this is really tragic story, these victims are so young and today fairfax county police releasing their names. the driver, 26-year-old benjamin of anna dell and his girlfriend, 23-year-old abigail ryan of greet falls were killed. we are told ryan's ril sister only 15 years old in the back seat and had to be none by helicop her to hospital with life-threatening injuries s. here at the scene, roses have been placed by the tree and pieces of glass still on the ground and if we swing around, there are also pieces of that karen the pond, others laying there in the gross now the single vehicle crash happened around 7:00 last night in the 10500 block of beach mill road. the victims were headed backing to the grocery store. the car left the road then the car backed over it before slamming into a tree. this is a very rural area and the road h
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curves to it. thennors telling us, this is one of several terrible crashes that happened in the past few years. >> there have been a few in this general area. i think, this tree had been hit witness before. but it is pretty straight. it has curves to it. the curves are up. you know? on opposite ends of where we'rer than middle of the strep. >> i spoke to police today. they tell me they are investigating if speed may have been a factor here. the crash remains under investigation. anyone who may have withsed this accident is urged to call fairfax county police. well he we're told that 15-year-old remains in the hospital tonight. in great falls, ryan hughes, abc 7 news. >> police in d.c. trying to felling gur out what caused this deadly crash in the southeast. one person was killed three others taken to the hospital in critical condition. it happened this morning at good hope road. right now, an investigation into what sparked a house firen
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drive this morning. we're told that the people who live this were out of town and the dogs were home and unfortunately not make it. well, remember you can be the first to know when breaking news happens. sign up for alerts to your phone by going to your website at wjla.com/tex. turning now to the weather. taking a live look outside as you can see, and another beautiful september day. meteorologist josh knight has first look at the forecast. nosh, we know you are staying abreast of yet another hurricane. meteorologist: that is right. we we're tracking another one here. as of 5:00 hurricane maria barley category 1 and max winds of 7 army. taking aim at a lot of the same islands that irma moved past. this is going to be one we expect to strengthen over the next few days. one that could vim pack on the u.s. mainland over to next week, sti
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days out. meanwhile getting ready to once gain work over the areas hurt by maim. let's talk locally what is happening here. another beautiful evening fors. we have temperatures are hanging around the upper 70's once you factor in the humidity, though, more summer like. still feeling like 82 in d.c. frederick feels like 84 degrees so staying warm for us throughout the evening hours. well, with that extra warmth. a few showers popped up for today, right now, off to the west of fairfax. closer to chantally and more near battle pore. most of us staying dry and looking is a nice evening. temperatures do in the mid 60's by the time we get morning. back to work. back to school maybe a little bit of fog tomorrow morning. right now, three named systems throughout. jose, mariand what you head to know for each of them. jose the close erwhat that could mean for us for the workweek and when we could see windy weather. kell zi thanks so much. well, a development now. boston college says that four amerin
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are studies studying abroad. one woman has been arrested. authorities do not believe it was an act of terror. they say that the women who are all in their 20 way were at a train station when another woman threw acid on them. boston college says the students will be okay. am update now as they arrest a second man in connection to friday's terror attack on a subway train in hon done. the 21-year-old was taken into custody lit last night hours after an18-year-old man was arrested this them bombing injured 30 passengers. police still looking one else who may have been involved. also new tonight, britain's terror threat level has been lowered. meaning another attack is no longer imminent. >> we have it under evaluation. it is a serious issue with respect to the harm and certain individuals have suffered and we brought some of those people home. is under review. >> secretary of state rex tillerson
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possibility of closing the u.s. embassy in cuba following incident on american diplomats. the cuban government denies involve president and allows fbi agents in the country to investigate. president trump gearing up for a big week. he well be face-to-face with fellow world leaders at the united nations' general assembly and as gloria riff air ya shows, you there is plenty on the again. president trump spending the sunday morning on twitter and retweets are raising eyebrows including one showing the president hitting hillary clinton with a ball. the president also retweeting ups renewing the calls for tougher travel ban. in reaxe to the bombing on london train on friday. >> will we see a new one? well, this is something we are looking at. how to protect the american people better. how to ensure that we know who these people are, who are moving. >> but the uk prime minister is pushing a
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york this week. one of the issues i will be raising this in the united nations is the question of the use of the internet and by terrorists for terrorist planning but using it for the pride of extreme im and hatred and can spine. a hot topic at the u.n. and tweeting call are the leader rocket man. if has to defend itself or gene the allies in anyway. north korea will be destroyed. we all know that. none of want that. none of us want war. >> the "wall street journal" reporting the administration may stay in the paris climate accord. secretary of state rex tillerson says under the right sibses that may be the case. we are willing to work with partne
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a set of terms that we believe is fair and balanced with the american people. >> coming up on abc news at 6:30. ah update on the ban on transgender. what the pentagon now says about service members already in uniform. plus -- >> all can hear is your seven-year-old child stream screaming saying "somebody help us" they are crying at the top of their listening. >> a friday night of fun take as terrifying turn. a worker plans to help kids trapped after ferris wheel (woman) when you have type 2 diabetes, there's a moment of truth. and now with victoza®, a better moment of proof. victoza® lowers my a1c and blood sugar better than the leading branded pill, which didn't get me to my goal. lowers my a1c better than
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a first in the florida keys. residents return getting a look at the damage hurricane irma left behind. >> and looking live outside, another beautiful day in the dmv, but josh is tracking another hurricane so stay with us. your weath
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but we thought he would be ok. >> i am sorry. >> those people suffering through flooding and sweltering heat heat without power or water service and warned to bring as nan my supplies back with them as they could. more than 300 thousand people are still without power in the state of florida. >> well, a week after irma flooded remains and concerns for people along the river, that is north of fam. the river is not pecked to crest until midweek. police going door to door telling thousands to evacuate even those homes are not in danger are being told they could be cut off until the water level drops and storm runoff. >> after deploying this to the u.s. vir gn in lass virginia task force 1 is back in puerto rico tonight. the search and rescue team is helping with recover friday hurricane irma and preparing for raval of hurricane maria later this
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week. josh has been keeping his eye on three storms on maria, jose and lee. >> lee is busy, likely going to fizzle out, now, down a tropical depression but between marie why and jose. we have a busy next two weeks probably keeping a close eye on the storms. let's start off with quiet view around d.c. things have been nice for thus weekend. aside from just a few isolated showers, really a great last weekend of summer. physical positionally starts for us on friday. son joy while it may be a little bit above average. 80 for you still reported there from arlington this evening. as we go throughout the rest theme. 6 around 7:00. nice and quiet. still 71 degrees for. forecast tonight. 59 to 69 degrees a big spread and patchy fog to develop a lot like it looks this morning with low clouds and the foggy early morning hours, that is likely how your monday will start off with as well then the afternoon looks like
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a mix of sun and clous and will still hang or fo r on her to chance of isolate shower and temperatures are at average this time of year. 79 officially. the high temperature for normal for the day now below the 80-grow mark. let's talk about jose. let's see where we are now. we got a gat cath for ry one storm now sipping off the coast of cape hatteras. this storm exed to stay moving north so staying out to sea but even with that, ex strong gusty winds likely some beach erosion, rip currents that sort of thing. something we are dealing with along the coastline. as a matter of pack, as of tonight at 5 0:00, the national hurricane center putting out tropical storm watch another wear coast up to southeast new england so something to keep in mind as we watch this storm and still even by friday, even though is a tropical depression, our low that is left over, 60 miles per hour winds wrapped up that in stomp. what i want to show you what is it looks like closer to home. tomorrow, a mixture. a few showers not out of
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question. today, i graph looks like today. future cast overdidding it a bit. as we fast forward to tuesday. there you can see the center bringing train to the beaches what m when while d.c. stays relatively dre. the bigger thing we see around the metro area will the gusty winds not really that strong for d.c. where it is about 2 army. now as you go further east, they do pick up quickly by ocean city, by dover, we have got the wind gusts closer to almost 50 miles per hour. so looking aced that he this week. still iite. monday tuesday, wednesday. temperatures around the 80 in degree mark. into next week, we see maria getting closer. no this track guess out here with the category one storm taking us closer to port the rocco, pune na coon na, dominican republic, by the time we get tho thursday. the problem here, this is a major hurricane winds of 125 miles per hour. category 3 again moving over the same places that mare did. so down there, with everybody dealing with irma and now getting ready to
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we'll keep an eye on that as it does make the turn and could be bringing some power closer to the east coast by next week. 79 degrees for you on monday. tuesday, then by first day of fall. we're back to the low 80's. again if we see rain or anything from maria this that would be next to next week by tuesday, wednesday. still several days out. in all, things are looking good. >> still well against the rams. >> happy to hear. they are in action now. then the ravens were dominant in their home opener against the browns. craven pissed to rejohn the team ons day. we have the latest, and all of that, when we come back. (con artists...) they'll try anything to get your medicare card number. so they can steal your identity, commit medicare fraud. what can you do? guard your card? guard your card? just like your credit card. nobody gets my number, unless i know they should have it.
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>> the red skips are in los angeles facing the rams and the head coach t
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former offensive coordinator right now, the skins 2-17 in the fourth. we have highlights tonight at 10:00 meanwhile according to a source, the safety who has been on the exempt left list as are after he told teammates he wanted to retire couple of weeksing ago well now rejohn the team ons day details on the involvement with the team when he comes back next week and all of that is still unclear. well, man while, the ravens hosting the browns in the home opener. stay special moment for hogan, went to the game in the second and the first career touchdown pass. brons still trailing 14. five seconds to go in the half. joe rolled out. find jeremy for the five-yard score and the ravens' defense for five turnovers dominating the second half. 24-16 and scott am abraham has more from the stadium.
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>> the baltimore ravens for success quite simple. reason the football and play good tee defess. cue say the ravens did both pretty well this afternoon and during the 24-10 home opening win over this browns. well, the guys don't bling, you know? they are resillient. they are tough. they keep playing. they are confident to make play that is what you want. take good defense. the ravens' defense a turnover machine sonar season forcing five turnovers today another second straight week. we want to be, you know, a ferocious defense. we want to be defense, you know,. >> on the jurnries front. the ravens did suffer a big blow in the game losing right offensive guard for the season with a broken ankle. the ravens off to a fantastic start to the young season. two division games, two big wins. next week, there will abe cross t
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the stadium in london against the jacksonville jaguars. reporting at msu bank stadium. abc 7 sports. >> thank, scott. former nfl running back and kurt lamont jr. ann will join me in studio. we'll get the red skins' rams game ap any themselves nfl related tonight at abc 7 spores day in. >> all right. how about the mystics down 0-2 in the wnba semifinals against men seat to. washington tried to avoid elimination in the front of the home crowd this afternoon take things up second quarter. like a woman possessed with strong drive and lays it in. that was part of the run. mist ins lead 39-36 at the half. fourth quarter, the they begin to take over. two over 18 and mystics lose 81-70 so they are swept by the lengths and three games
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the, trying to avoid the sweep against the dodgers tonight and on the mound that is a good thing first pitch is at 8:00. all right. let's hope things work out for them. >> yes. thank yoi'm a lawyer, and i have clients, and i am proud to do what i do on behalf of my clients. narrator: the clients john adams and his team are so proud to work for? banks accused of money laundering. big corporations accused of defrauding taxpayers. and mortgage lenders accused of unfairly foreclosing on homes. now he wants to be attorney general. john adams: the best attorney general the powerful and well-connected can buy. i'm mark herring, candidate for attorney general, and i sponsored this ad.
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>> all right a final check of the forecast. things are quiet around here. i want to show think latest the hurricane center as far as the watches as tropical storm watch positionally for delaware, the coast working the way up to new england. as you get to the south of there. ocean city, virginia beech, hatteras, that is another ocean waters there. so the land that is involved is going to be dell which are and north. meanwhile, things are look looking nice for tomorrow. just breezy ons day from jose. temperatures around 80 degrees pest. great northern of the week. next weekend making
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could see rain by sunday. thanks so much. we will see you right back here at 11:00. have a great night.
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